The Gimmicks (A Novel) - 9780062908582

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ā€œThe Gimmicks is a gorgeous epic that astounds with its scope and beauty. With empathy and humor, McCormick unravels the ties between brotherhood and betrayal, love and abandonment, and the fictions we create to live with the pain of the past. This novel will blow you away.ā€ ā€”Brit Bennett, New York Times bestselling author of The Mothers

Set in the waning years of the Cold War, a stunning debut novel about a trio of young Armenians that moves from the Soviet Union, across Europe, to Southern California, and at its center, one of the most tragic cataclysms in twentieth-century historyā€”the Armenian Genocideā€”whose traumatic reverberations will have unexpected consequences on all three lives.

This exuberant, wholly original novel begins in Kirovakan, Armenia, in 1971. Ruben Petrosian is a serious, solitary young man who cares about two things: mastering the game of backgammon to beat his archrival, Mina, and studying the history of his ancestors. Ruben grieves the victims of the 1915 Armenian Genocide, a crime still denied by the descendants of its perpetrators, and dreams of vengeance.

When his orphaned cousin, Avo, comes to live with his family, Rubenā€™s life is transformed. Gregarious and physically enormous, with a distinct unibrow that becomes his signature, Avo is instantly beloved. He is everything Ruben is not, yet the two form a bond they swear never to break.

But their paths diverge when Ruben vanishesā€”drafted into an extremist group that will stop at nothing to make Turkey acknowledge the genocide. Unmoored by Rubenā€™s disappearance, Avo and Mina grow close in his absence. But fate brings the cousins together once more, when Ruben secretly contacts Avo, convincing him to leave Mina and join the extremistsā€”a choice that will dramatically alter the course of their lives.

Left to unravel the threads of this story is Terry ā€œAngel Hairā€ Krill, a veteran of both the US Navy and the funhouse world of professional wrestling, whose life intersects with Avo, Ruben, and Minaā€™s in surprising and devastating ways.

Told through alternating perspectives, The Gimmicks is a masterpiece of storytelling. Chris McCormick brilliantly illuminates the impact of history and injustice on ordinary lives and challenges us to confront the spectacle of violence and the specter of its aftermath.

This book title, The Gimmicks (A Novel) - 9780062908582, ISBN: 9780062908582, by Chris McCormick, published by HarperCollins (January 5, 2021) is available in paperback. Our minimum order quantity is 25 copies. All standard bulk book orders ship FREE in the continental USA and delivered in 4-10 business days.

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Product Details

Author:
Chris McCormick
Format:
Paperback
Pages:
368
Publisher:
HarperCollins (January 5, 2021)
Language:
English
ISBN-13:
9780062908582
ISBN-10:
0062908588
Weight:
10oz
Dimensions:
5.31" x 8" x 0.83"
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52
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Audience:
General/trade
Country of Origin:
United States
Pub Discount:
65

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